The recorder can be an instrument of musical torture in the hands of a beginning musical student. Put that same plastic instrument in the hands and mouth of a skilled musician and the results are something special.

A replica of the Titanic is being built, complete with modern technology so that history doesn’t repeat itself. An Australian billionaire is paying a Chinese shipyard to recreate the famed, doomed ship for the modern era.

The details surrounding the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster get stranger and stranger. Now some survivors say there was at least one eerie coincidence between the catastrophe and the one that befell the Titanic a century ago: music.